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WrittenCocaine

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Okay...iWould really appreciate anyone who could help me out with this. iHad trouble with Vista prior to this, which led me into having my computer rebooted only with 10.0 GB of free space in Local Disc (C:) So now I'm stuck with a pretty much ultimate downgraded computer. iNeed to know what files iCould delete throughout the computer or able to move to free up space?!

Please help me!!!
 

My Computer

System One

Hallo WrittenCocaine, If your computer is up to date & both Service Packs are succesfully installed from an elevated command prompt http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/181765-elevated-command-prompt.html
You can type; compcln.exe then press enter (you may have to press Y to confirm)

This should free up about 1gb it cleans out leftovers & uninstaller from Service Packs.

If you dont use Hibernate also from an elevated command prompt type; powercfg -h off this will also free up a lot of space

Use disk clean up to delete your old restore points, this will leave you with the most recent one http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76073-disk-cleanup.html

And i would use Ccleaner but please if you are not familar with the mechanics of the Registry then I would leave the Registry cleaner option well alone
CCleaner - Download

There is also the option of uninstalling any software you dont use, i hope this is of some help
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett Packard, compaq presario CQ60-305AU
    CPU
    AMD Athlon QI-46 2.1 Ghz
    Motherboard
    Wistron 303C
    Memory
    2048 Mb DDR2 SD Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidea GE Go Force 8200M G / 256Mb dedicated grapics memory
    Sound Card
    MCP78S NVidea High definition
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6" High Definition Brightview Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1336x768
    Hard Drives
    Toshiba MK2555GSX ATA
    Mouse
    Synaptics PS2/Touchpad
WrittenCocaine said:
which led me into having my computer rebooted only with 10.0 GB of free space in Local Disc C
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I don't understand. Do you mean reinstalled?
how big is you hard drive? do you have a folder named "windows old"?

@ mitchell Thanks for the compcln.exe tip I gained about .5gb
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    acer aspire 6930
    Memory
    3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    onboard
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Hard Drives
    320GB

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett Packard, compaq presario CQ60-305AU
    CPU
    AMD Athlon QI-46 2.1 Ghz
    Motherboard
    Wistron 303C
    Memory
    2048 Mb DDR2 SD Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidea GE Go Force 8200M G / 256Mb dedicated grapics memory
    Sound Card
    MCP78S NVidea High definition
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6" High Definition Brightview Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1336x768
    Hard Drives
    Toshiba MK2555GSX ATA
    Mouse
    Synaptics PS2/Touchpad
kenny111111 said:
WrittenCocaine said:
which led me into having my computer rebooted only with 10.0 GB of free space in Local Disc C
Click to expand...

I don't understand. Do you mean reinstalled?
how big is you hard drive? do you have a folder named "windows old"?

@ mitchell Thanks for the compcln.exe tip I gained about .5gb
Click to expand...

Glad it helped, credit goes to Brink thats who i got it from :D
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett Packard, compaq presario CQ60-305AU
    CPU
    AMD Athlon QI-46 2.1 Ghz
    Motherboard
    Wistron 303C
    Memory
    2048 Mb DDR2 SD Ram
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidea GE Go Force 8200M G / 256Mb dedicated grapics memory
    Sound Card
    MCP78S NVidea High definition
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15.6" High Definition Brightview Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1336x768
    Hard Drives
    Toshiba MK2555GSX ATA
    Mouse
    Synaptics PS2/Touchpad
so your C: is 10GB
you do have another drive. correct? you can make your C: bigger if you have to.
do you have a folder (on that drive) named windows old?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    acer aspire 6930
    Memory
    3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    onboard
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Hard Drives
    320GB
Could you post a picture of Disk Management so that we get a better idea of your situation.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
OK, that's not really very telling because it does not show the size of D. A Disk Management picture (as suggested) would have been better. But how come you ended up with such a small C partition. For a healthy Vista you need at least 50GB. What is the size of your total hard drive?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
do the same thing. but change the way you view(on the page your taking the picture of) to either tiles or details. you cant see the size of your D:

start > computer > views tab > change to tiles or details..
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    acer aspire 6930
    Memory
    3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    onboard
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Hard Drives
    320GB
kenny111111 said:
do the same thing. but change the way you view(on the page your taking the picture of) to either tiles or details. you cant see the size of your D:

start > computer > views tab > change to tiles or details..
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I don't think that will help because D is hidden - would have to unhide it first. But we'll see.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
kenny111111 said:
here is a good tutorial for the partition tool in vista. How to Partition in Windows Vista (Extend and Shrink)?
but as long as you don't save anything that isn't necessary to your C: it should be fine.

good luck
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OK I was wrong there you need more space!! here is a better tutorial. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial133.html
Try it again. I would go for at least 15 more GB. If it don't work, take a screenshot or write down the excact error message.

It will shrink in MB..If you want 10gb = 10240mb 15gb = 15360mb 20gb = 2048mb

good luck
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    acer aspire 6930
    Memory
    3GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    onboard
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Hard Drives
    320GB
This looks like there was a mistake made during the installation and D should have been C and vice versa. It also looks like D is not a recovery partition. A recovery partition usually contains less than 10GB of data. What do you actually have on D?
With Disk Management it is going to be a little iffy to rearrange things, but it can be done. But first we need to understand what's on D.
So open D and take a screenshot and post that here. Also, do you have an external disk and how much free space is on that. Once we have that data, we'll make the next step.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
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